Effluvium Antonyms Quotes & Sayings

there were lovely things in the world, lovely that didn't endure, and the lovelier for that... Nothing endures. — Lewis Grassic Gibbon

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of "systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, cyst-susceptible sister," which is easier done than said. — Lemony Snicket

I should have let you kill him."

Silence.

"You're nodding, aren't you?"

"I didn't say a word."

"Bastard," Hadrian grumbled.

"You know the worst thing?"

"I've got a pretty long list of bad things right now, and I'm not sure which one I would put on top. So I'll bite. — Michael J. Sullivan

Damn! I thought, furious that even after expending my only rocket, I couldn't get the machine pistol; I was right back where I started, except one rocket lighter. I had squandered my gift! I felt like the guy who found a lamp that would grant one wish, and he says, "Jeez, I wish I knew what to wish for." I — Dafydd Ab Hugh

He swallowed hard and looked deep into my eyes so intensely, I tried hard not to look away. I didn't want him to see how mildly scared of him I was. I touched the hand in his lap and he answered. — Mercy Cortez

The highest achievement possible to man is the full consciousness of his own feelings and thoughts, for this gives him the means of knowing intimately the hearts of others. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him. — Simone De Beauvoir

Nearly all men have weak hearts, in one way or another. — Steven J. Carroll

The mind is moored to others;
the wasps orbit on little tethers of light. — Warren Heiti